I posted a link to one of my tracks on Alexander Brandon’s facebook page and he replied saying he liked the track. That was pretty awesome since he’s my favourite electronic musician (he composed music for games like Unreal, Deus Ex and many others). Has anyone else managed to get their music heard by one of their heroes?

It’s allways worth more than 100’000$ if one of your heroes comments your music.
I had ( fairly long time ago ) Trent Reznor ordering a copy of our very first self produced and promoted ambient album by email. Unfortunately he didn’t do that for the following albums BUT im still very proud and stored this email in one of the swiss high security digital storage providers inside the biggest mountains here ( just kidding )

ToivoMedia said
I posted a link to one of my tracks on Alexander Brandon’s facebook page and he replied saying he liked the track. That was pretty awesome since he’s my favourite electronic musician (he composed music for games like Unreal, Deus Ex and many others). Has anyone else managed to get their music heard by one of their heroes?

Wow! Seriously? That’s pretty awesome. I’d be stoked if I could get an A-list game composer to comment on my music.

Wow! Seriously? That’s pretty awesome. I’d be stoked if I could get an A-list game composer to comment on my music.

Yeah, I just posted on his facebook page. I always wanted to do a track that lived up to the original Unreal soundtrack, and now I think I’ve managed it, and it has the Alexander Brandon seal of approval!

- met and was taught byChristopher Young, and he reviewed multiple pieces of music. He was our instructor for 20 weeks. A total privilege, the man is a genius.

- met and was taught by Bruce Broughton. This man has forgotten more about orchestration than most of us will ever know. We had classes with him for 15 weeks. He still writes all his music with pencil and paper. A total privilege, the man is a genius.

I also worked at John Powell’s studio while he was working on How To Train Your Dragon.

Now ultimately, none of this was REALLY of any benefit to me with my career, but at the time it was certainly inspirational, and I learnt an incredible amount from these people.

I chose to ‘go my own way’ as a composer (many go and work for A-list composers, a perfectly valid option), and I’m lucky that things have sort of panned out since I left USC .

Also, since leaving USC (i.e. meetings I actually made the effort to do myself!) I’ve also had the pleasure of meeting the Bioshock composer Garry Schymann, and uber-talented cellist Tina Guo (cellist for Hans Zimmer) who I will be working with on an upcoming ‘unannounced project’.

So yeah…. the above is one of the reasons I came to Los Angeles in the first place. I haven’t looked back since.

good for you. Somehow all that influence of film scoring we can recognize in your best selling track. You see … I never went to any school. Most of my stuff isn’t at least in half good as well selling tracks on AJ, however – I do sell some of this stuff with only 55 positions.

good for you. Somehow all that influence of film scoring we can recognize in your best selling track. You see … I never went to any school. Most of my stuff isn’t at least in half good as well selling tracks on AJ, however – I do sell some of this stuff with only 55 positions.